recall

recall is a skill for Claude Code from jmylchreest/aide. It costs 19 tokens per session (788 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for stored project memories, past decisions, lessons, and context. It can also show decision histories and list saved records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions about previous architectural choices, project patterns, and earlier learnings.
Why use it?
It helps recover why earlier choices were made instead of relying on memory or searching scattered notes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aide plugin — 25 skills, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to answer questions about previous architectural choices, project patterns, and earlier learnings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jmylchreest/aide/recall
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add jmylchreest/aide --skill recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmylchreest/aide

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aide, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 9 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00019 $0.00788
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00079

Measured 10d ago against content hash f89d08062a16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recall scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/recall/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recall

Recommended model tier: balanced (sonnet) - this skill performs straightforward operations

Search stored memories and decisions to answer questions about past learnings, architectural choices, patterns, and project context.

MCP Tools

Search Memories

Tool Purpose
mcp__plugin_aide_aide__memory_search Full-text search (fuzzy, prefix, substring matching)
mcp__plugin_aide_aide__memory_list List memories, optionally filtered by category

Get Decisions

Tool Purpose
mcp__plugin_aide_aide__decision_get Get specific decision by topic
mcp__plugin_aide_aide__decision_list List all decisions
mcp__plugin_aide_aide__decision_history Get all versions of a decision

Workflow

  1. Parse the question - Extract key terms
  2. Search both sources:
    • Use mcp__plugin_aide_aide__memory_search with relevant keywords
    • Use mcp__plugin_aide_aide__decision_get with the topic, or mcp__plugin_aide_aide__decision_list
  3. Analyze timestamps - Prefer most recent (ULIDs are time-ordered)
  4. Answer - Combine relevant context from both sources

Instructions

When the user asks about previous context:

  1. For architectural/design questions (testing, auth, database, etc.):

    • Use mcp__plugin_aide_aide__decision_get with topic (e.g., "testing")
    • If unsure of topic name, use mcp__plugin_aide_aide__decision_list
  2. For learnings/patterns/gotchas:

    • Use mcp__plugin_aide_aide__memory_search with query (e.g., "ESM imports")
  3. When answering:

    • Cite the source (memory or decision)
    • Include the date for context
    • Note if something was updated/changed

Examples

User: "What testing framework did we decide on?" → Use mcp__plugin_aide_aide__decision_get with topic="testing" → Answer with the decision and rationale

User: "What was the issue with ESM imports?" → Use mcp__plugin_aide_aide__memory_search with query="ESM imports" → Answer with the learning

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 91 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A f89d08062a16

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recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmylchreest/aide (17 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 788 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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